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„Turner. The Sea and the Alps“ in the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland until October 13, 2019
The British painter is one of the first to depict the Swiss mountains and lakes / Travel nerves for high altitudes
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For its second collection Marsotto LAB again cooperated with Lausanne’s ECAL School of Fine Art
Students designed simple and aesthetically pleasing household items in black and white marble
The new James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin is a treasure for the Museum Island and shines throughout the City
Architect David Chipperfield used marble-concrete to contrast old and new and yet to link them at the same time
Natural stone as a connector and accentuator for furniture design
Belgian designer Olivier Vitry presented his „Modular Tables“ at the Milan Furniture Fair’s Salone Satellite
„Upcycling“ of broken stone tools was a stone-age-behavior to get special utensils for precision and accuracy tasks
Finds in the Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv show that people 400,000 years ago had a sophisticated toolkit
The „Well of Eternity“ – the center of an eternal resting place
Stonemason and engineer Timothy Vincent developed an innovative concept for modern burials
Artist competition to the communist Ernst Thälmann Memorial in Berlin
The leftover from the GDR-era shall be explained and put into its historical context by an „innovative artistic concept“
Shortlisted works for the 10th edition of the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize shown in Barnstaple, North Devon
Participants of the exhibition are 9 UK-based emerging sculptors
New trade fair: Obra Blanca Expo (OE Expo) for stones and tiles in Mexico City from October 15 to 17, 2019
StonExpo from Las Vegas in cooperation with the Tile Council of North America (TCNA)
„Young Creative Ideas Platform” – second appearance at the Marble Trade Fair Izmir
„Different“ was this year’s motto of the design students’ competition in Turkey
„Chisel and Memory. The contribution of marble craftsmanship to the restoration of the Acropolis monuments“
The photo exhibition in the Acropolis Museum in Athens pays a tribute to stonemasons’ role in safeguarding the antique treasures
Italian Confindustria Marmomacchine is preparing an „International Stone Network” as supranational community
General assembly with more than 170 delegates in Milan / Business statistics: „Slight slowdown compared to the record levels of previous years”
GfK market analysis: EU newcomers have significant increases in per capita purchasing power
But the distance to the average of the countries in the West is still big
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Norwegian block producer Lundhs has started an online shop where it sells design objects created with its Larvikite-stones
LafargeHolcim Awards for sustainable construction solutions combined with architectural excellence
Application open until February 25, 2020, for total prize money of US-$ 2 million